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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:300-301
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

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Life course epidemiology and infectious diseases

Andrew J Hall, Leland J Yee and Sara L Thomas

Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK. E-mail: andy.hall@lshtm.ac.uk

There has been a traditional view that divided epidemiology into infectious and chronic diseases. Since we now know that at least 15% of cancers worldwide are caused by infections,1 that infections frequently have a natural history lasting decades and that the same epidemiological methods can be applied to both infectious and non-infectious diseases, this view can be considered purely historical. However, the nature of infectious diseases has implications for the application of epidemiological approaches including the specific example of life course epidemiology. Whilst the definition of this is still debated, it clearly refers to the way in which influences at different stages of life affect and modify risks of disease. Life course epidemiology particularly focuses on disease in adult life and so that is what we discuss here. We are not going to consider childhood or adolescent diseases. In addition it recognizes two . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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